[Samba] can't resolve NETBios names

Lukasz Szybalski szybalski at gmail.com
Fri Feb 22 15:53:20 GMT 2008


On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Wells Bacon <wells at wbacon.com> wrote:
> My LAN has a single linux/samba server as a PDC/file server, and several
>  windows workstations. The workstations get their IP addresses from a Linksys
>  cable router DHCP server.
>
>  I can't get the linux machine to resolve the NETBios names of the windows
>  machines.
>
>  >From the Linux machine I can see the Internet through the DSL router, I can
>  ping the windows machines by IP address, but "ping NETBiosname" returns
>  "Unknown host NETBiosname", and "nmblookup NETBiosname" returns "name_query
>  failed to find name NETBiosname"
>
>  The windows machies have 192.168.0.99 added as a WINS server in their LAN
>  configuration, otherwise they are just straight DHCP clients, and they can
>  see the Linux machine as well as each other by name.
>
>  The PDC is running Suse 10, and Samba 3.
>
>  Linux network config:
>
>  Netgear RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet Card
>  static IP: 192.168.0.99
>  subnet: 255.255.255.0
>  hostname: Wizard
>  domain: BDCO
>  Name Server 1: 10.231.233.1
>  Name Server 2: 12.127.17.71
>  Default Gateway: 192.168.0.1 (Linksys router)
>
>  smb.conf:
>
>  # Wizard
>  #
>  # BDCO PDC
>  [global]
>         add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd  -c Machine -d /var/lib/nobody -s
>  /bin/false %m$
>         admin users = @root
>         browseable = Yes
>         domain logons = Yes
>         domain master = Yes
>         encrypt passwords = Yes
>         guest ok = no
>         local master = Yes
>         logon drive = C:
>         logon path = \\%L\profiles\%U
>         logon script = bdconet.cmd
>         map to guest = Bad User
>         max protocol = NT
>         name resolve order = wins bcast lmhosts host
>         netbios name = WIZARD
>         os level = 65
>         passdb backend = tdbsam
>         passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
>         preferred master = Yes
>         restrict anonymous = no
>         security = user
>         server signing = Auto
>         smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
>         unix password sync = yes
>         username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
>         wins support = yes
>         workgroup = BDCO
>
>  [netlogon]
>         path = /var/lib/samba/netlogon
>         write list = @root
>         browseable = no
>         comment = Network Logon Service
>
>  [profiles]
>         comment = Network Profiles Service
>         path = /var/lib/samba/profiles
>         read only = No
>         store dos attributes = Yes
>         create mask = 0600
>         directory mask = 0700
>         browseable = no
>
>  [other shares]...
>
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you need to install windbind and add wins to nsswitch..

read this:
http://lucasmanual.com/mywiki/SambaDomainController#head-8ae23b786749b4d46ef0e9ed22148e63eeab95e7



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